On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 10:12:38AM -0400, Kevin Lawton wrote:
> "gfunk007" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > We need to get plex86 done so I can run win2000 under linux on my
> > new AMD sledgehammer I think :-)
>
> All the inline assembly cheats I take, like using the native
> ADD instruction to emulate an ADD instruction including generating
> the correct eflags values would have to be changed.
>
> Much other monitor framework assumes IA32.
>
> I haven't looked at AMD's hammer specs. If they added
> enough native virtualization, maybe we wouldn't need
> SBE stuff. If we do, don't know how the split I&D
> TLB trick would work.
Once we get rid of all the TLAs, how difficult would it be to use the plex86
architecture to virtualize another processor (e.g., PowerPC)? Yeah there's a
lot of architecture stuff that changes, but would it be feasible?
btw, Kevin, how's dynamic translation for Bochs going (kind of same topic...)?
I haven't been following Bochs that much recently, but it looks like not much
has happened. (I assume plex86 is first priority right now, which is good.)
Kenneth
